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Guest Shufflin

Guest Shufflin

great double sider, I've got this on the 45 (which I got for Ask The Lonely) - first heard Where Did You Go on a Tamla Motown Connoisseurs CD compiliation years after I'd got the 45 - then realised I had it on 45! (yes, I know, idiot)

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MotownSoulMan 263

MotownSoulMan 263

great double sider, I've got this on the 45 (which I got for Ask The Lonely) - first heard Where Did You Go on a Tamla Motown Connoisseurs CD compiliation years after I'd got the 45 - then realised I had it on 45! (yes, I know, idiot)

play the flip sides everyone

Ha ha. I'd completely forgotten it was on that cd until you just mentioned it.

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MotownSoulMan 263

MotownSoulMan 263

That's someone who hasn't to my knowledge featured on this thread before, (Please correct me if I am wrong). Songs In The Key Of Life, though not everyone's cup of tea, is one of the great Motown albums.

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MotownSoulMan 263

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To continue both the Stevie Wonder theme, and the fact that "Another Star", taken from the "Songs In The Key Of Life" album is labelled as perfection by @Bruv, I would like to add this, as I think it fits the "perfection" tag too.

Stevie Wonder - Living For The City (Album version, taken from Inversions) Tamla T 326L 1973

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MotownSoulMan 263

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Probably on already but a thing a beauty, some records just get better.

Totally agree with that statement Peter. It's certainly one of those evergreen songs, that certainly "I" never get fed up with listening too. I would say the majority of songs on this thread are of the upbeat variety, but there's a whole lot of slower songs that came out of the Motown stable, that will never, ever die, and many of them will still get airplay in another 60 years time.

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Martin S 330

Martin S 330

It would take some time for me to work out "the fave" Motown track of mine, that's if it were at all possible to select just one. I'm not a collector of the traditional Motown sound as most of you know, so in terms of artists, for consistency on the label The Dazz Band are my choice. For the moment I'm posting a couple of tracks that would certainly be close to, if not in, my top 10 Motown releases. Both are LP only tracks, the first from a German born artist, it's a cheeky heavy funk track from 1979 with phenomenal synth bass. If you like Captain Sky, and Defunkt, this is unavoidable.

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John Hart 90

John Hart 90

They Did not Fail! "Make Yourself Right at Home " was a US Motown single, 1718mf,bythe Tops with an earlier Frank Wilson track on the flip, "Sing a Song of Yesterday" rather nice ,buy it now on discogs under a Fiver ?

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Martin S 330

Martin S 330

That's interesting John, thanks, I never knew it was on a US 45. I guess that entry may have surfaced on Discogs only in recent years?

It still ranks as a serious failure to me that they didn't release the track in Europe on a 12". It would have sold in huge quantity especially as overall the LP it comes from is poor in my opinion. When one considers how "Treat Her Like A Lady" by the Temptations sold worldwide shortly after, it being a song that's not hugely different, there's no excuse. Shame on any record company that fails to spot such an obvious potential hit.

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To continue both the Stevie Wonder theme, and the fact that "Another Star", taken from the "Songs In The Key Of Life" album is labelled as perfection by @Bruv, I would like to add this, as I think it fits the "perfection" tag too.

Stevie Wonder - Living For The City (Album version, taken from Inversions) Tamla T 326L 1973